> I spent 2.5 years as a visiting professor at Southern Illinois University> and never heard a thing about Fox. However, as a physics graduate student
at> Indiana University in Bloomington, I heard about Hermann Joseph
Muller--1946> Nobel Laureate in Medicine for the discovery of the production of mutations> by means of X-ray irradiation. In my humble opinion an unambiguous creation> of life in a test tube would be orders of magnitude more important than> Muller's work. Where is the Nobel Prize for Fox??? In fact, I even called> a former colleague from SIU who spent many years there and he also had
never> heard of Fox.

And I have colleagues at SIU who knew Fox for years and greatly admired him.
So what? Who knew whom and for how long is irrelevant. Only the evidence is
relevant. Art and Moorad should stop hiding behind these strawman arguments
and debate the evidence, or admit they cannot and go away.

Kevin L. O'Brien

Well said Kevin, they are trying to trivialize the person rather than the argument. Quite a good indicator of the weakness of their arguments and/or the strength of yours/Fox's